306140 - RSS feeds that are not autodiscovered are cumbersome to add and manage

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 255637

(Firefox Graveyard :: RSS Discovery and Preview, enhancement)

Description

[Emanuele Vulcano]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; it-IT; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; it-IT; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6

RSS feeds that are autodiscovered and added through the status bar icon are fast
and rather easy to add. However, if a feed isn't autodiscovered for whatever
reason, adding it as a Live Bookmark requires looking for the "create live
bookmark" option in the Bookmark Manager; since nothing in a feed or a web site
referring to a feed usually mentions bookmarks, this is counterintuitive for
first-time users.

Firefox, when clicking on a feed link (the "XML" or "RSS" button on a site) or
when encountering a URL it can detect as being a feed (through the MIME type or
an exam of the page), should offer to add it as a Live Bookmark rather than
displaying it. This will remove the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to make a first-time user add a feed as a Live Bookmark when the feed
wasn't autodiscovered.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Dupe of bug 302121 (or bug 25563)? 

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Feedview was added by bug 302121, but is removed again in bug 305134. So it's
won't be in Firefox 1.5.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 302121 ***

Comment 3

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 255637 ***

Comment 4

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

Resetting QA contact to the default.

Comment 5

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

Verified Duplicate.